Spain adopts euthanasia law
Pro-euthanasia protesters demonstrate in Madrid Picture: Paul White/AP
Legislators have voted to make Spain the sixth country in the world, and the fourth in Europe, to allow physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia for long-suffering patients with incurable diseases and for people with unbearable permanent conditions.
The Spanish parliament’s lower house voted 202-140 with two abstentions on the final passage of the euthanasia bill.
